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Today is International Women’s’ Day, for us as Christians, it gives us an opportunity to examine our roles as women in the home, in the church and the society at large. Let’s look at why the Lord created woman in the first place. Genesis 2 vs. 18 ( KJV) provides the answer. It states: “ And […]
The post March into Joy with God’s help, by Funmi Komolafe appeared first on Vanguard News.
In The Republic, Plato makes strong connections between city and soul, arguing that as the city is, so is the soul; both having a tripartite nature, corresponding to the rational/wisdom-loving, appetitive/desiring and spirited/honour-seeking elements. The Bible defines the soul’s three elements as mind, emotion and will. The ideal state, like the ideal individual, is one with […]
The post Epstein files global fallout: Nigeria is too tolerant of abuse of power, by Olu Fasan appeared first on Vanguard News.
From last week continues the narrative tracing the history of how some past Nigerian leaders were hosted by the British Monarch after it emerged that President Bola Tinubu and his wife would similarly be hosted on March 18 in Windsor Castle instead of Buckingham Palace On that visit, he was accompanied by Alhaji Nuhu Bamali, […]
The post Our special bond with London(2), by Eric Teniola appeared first on Vanguard News.
“Terrifying are the weaknesses of power”— African proverb You just knew they would not turn tail and get back to the US empty-handed. All those ships and planes and everything else that can destroy a country’s critical infrastructure and terminate its leadership massed against a country, Iran. Still, Iran negotiated between being beheaded or being disarmed. […]
The post The world dislikes the weak, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed appeared first on Vanguard News.
In sports, you either win or lose. But in the spirit of Olympism, everybody is a winner. That is why it is said the joy of the Olympics is in participation. In football, to drive home the fact that winning is not everything, the world governing body, FIFA preaches Fair Play at all times. And […]
The post Morocco as sore losers, by Patrick Omorodion appeared first on Vanguard News.
The vexed debate over the Senate’s refusal to guarantee “mandatory” and “real-time” electronic transmission of results in the electoral law ignores two fundamental problems. The first is Nigeria’s utterly weak state capacity; the second is the total lack of institutional independence. Even if the electoral act provides for mandatory and real-time transmission of election results, “mandatory” […]
The post Real-time etransmission: ‘Technical glitch’ in 2027 will unsettle Nigeria, by Olu Fasan appeared first on Vanguard News.
The telecommunications industry opened with a bang in early 2000 after a snail-walk in the previous years of political uncertainties and economic decisions that were at best tentative. The industry was not only deregulated but phone ownership was so democratised that the development mocked previous assertions that telephones were for the rich. It was the birth […]
The post Regulator builds coalition for a new telecom policy, by Okoh Aihe appeared first on Vanguard News.
“All things are possible in politics”— Douglas Reed After two weeks of examining the language and practice of loyalty in Nigerian politics, one conclusion stands out with unsettling clarity: the phrase “I remain loyal” has become both a confession and an indictment. It confesses the fragility of conviction in our political culture and indictes a system […]
The post “I Remain Loyal”: Beyond the slogan and rethinking loyalty in Nigeria’s politics(3), by Usman Sarki appeared first on Vanguard News.
Well before he arrived Nigeria from Egypt, Nasir el-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State and frontline promoter of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, the new political home of the major opposition figures that have sworn to unseat President Bola Tinubu, had announced that he would be arrested upon arrival in the country. More than a […]
The post El-Rufai wanted and begged to be arrested, by Rotimi Fasan appeared first on Vanguard News.
The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against Leftists who had […]
The post Biodun Jeyifo: The intellectual as a revolutionary, by Owei Lakemfa appeared first on Vanguard News.